Sunil Bharti Mittal elected as GSMA Chairman

Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Sunil Mittal has been elected as GSMA (Global System Mobile Association) Chairman for a two-year period from January 2017.

GSMA Chairman Jon Fredrik Baksaas will step down from the Board at the end of the year.

Mittal becomes the first Indian to be elected as GSMA Chairman.

GSMA represents nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 300 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.

Karnal Singh appointed as chief of Enforcement Directorate

Senior IPS officer of Union territories cadre Karnal Singh (1984-batch) has appointed as the chief of Enforcement Directorate(ED).

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved the appointment of Singh as ED till 31 August 2017 (superannuation date).

Singh is holding the additional charge of ED chief since August last year.

Note:-

The Directorate General of Economic Enforcement is a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime in India.

It is a part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.

Ajay M. Gondane appointed as High Commissioner to Australia

Additional Secretary (Political) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Dr. Ajay M. Gondane (Indian Foreign Service-1985 Batch) has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia.

Dr. Gondane has previously served as High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea and as Deputy Consul General of India in New York.

PM to address 172 newly-inducted IAS officers

Mr. Modi has addressed the valedictory session of the Assistant Secretaries (IAS-2014 batch).

This is the second batch of IAS Officers to have commenced their career with a stint in the Central Government.

The officers started working as Assistant Secretaries in 58 Central government departments from August this year after their training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.

They were assigned important desks related to policy and flagship programmes of the concerned ministries and departments during their three-month posting.

9 athletes caught for Beijing doping

The International Olympic Committee announced the decisions that nine more athletes were retroactively disqualified from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after failing retests of their doping samples.

Athletes whose stored samples came back positive after being retested with improved methods.

Four athletes were stripped of silver medals and two of bronze medals in weightlifting, wrestling and women’s steeplechase.